Finding the right expert...

$2967 to start buy

-$887 32% 16 to 5 happened just before 22... Tokyo open? Asian markets... Usually the very slowest part of the day.
Must have been a news release... 6/8/16
Hard to figure what that was. It wouldn't affect 10 to 14 which is starting to look better and better.



$5 2% 10 to 14 Gave back about $50. didn't lose anything though.

Let's see what running 10 to14 both buy and sell for a year looks like..
I have the trades for 10 to 14 from 10/19/15 and know they were good.
the amount of gain will be off because it was lumped in with the gain from 16 to 5..
But the trades themselves were all good.
Let me continue on trading using T3 for trend but just use the 10 to 14 time period.
Still not sure how daylight savings might affect the time period on the chart.
Maybe it doesn't.

Also maybe the T3 setting is too slow. Maybe 5 would be better.
What is the harm if the trend is slowing and a faster T3 calls for more combine buy and sell days?
If a faster T3 can get in and out faster for trend changes.

Looks like I'll start over with 10 to 14 trade time.... 4 hours before US open... using T3 5...

The dragon made it all the way through for 2016 trading 10 to 14 using both buy and sell orders.
But there were some scary huge draw downs which didn't have to resolve.
$5156 gain starting with $1000 at .01 1:100
gave back a little at close at stop end of test time in tester...
$5000 would bring in $25000 for the year.
Those huge draw downs are still a little too risky.
They could be managed or avoided by trading with the T3 set at 5.
Overall gains may be reduced but if the risk could be reduced it would be worth it.
Okay back to the drawing board.
10 to 14, trading with the T3 at 5... set on the day chart
Start 1/1/16 so can compare the results not using T3

$1500 .01 1:100 AAAFX 10 to 14

sell
$59

$1559 buy and sell
+$48

$1607 buy
+$86

$1693 buy and sell Sunday $0

$1693 buy
$49

$1742 buy and sell
$70

$1812 sell
$40

$1852 buy and sell
$10

$1862
$15

$1877 buy and sell
$16

$1893 buy
$233

$2126 buy and sell
$14

$2140 sell
$150

Want to take a look at leaving trades open when the trend changes...Just changing the setting for opening trades according to T3. But if they are already open it may not be necessary to close for a loss. then again maybe it is better to just close them and take a loss. As much as I don;t want to I think that is the safer thing to do. Take a loss if they are still open and start fresh with the new indication of T3... After all trading time stops just before NY opens. It has all day to resolve itself if there is something left open. The settings for buy and sell are only set at the start of the new day candle. If it is still in loss from hour 14 to 0. Then it is better to close it. May be a break out... It's always tempting to leave it open and "hope" it turns around. Not where I want to go... Thank you. Been there. Done that.

Okay I bought the rights to dragonexpert. Finally got set up and funded with Tradersway. But now they won't let the robot run live even with the code. It runs live just fine on Oanda. So I'm thinking they have blocked it and will charge me another fee to be able use it on their platform. Will contact them when they open again whenever that is. Probably Sunday afternoon.
Since the dragon is a martingale there is always the possibility of a catastrophe. I'm thinking to set up for only four hours and monitor the market. Avoid news and data and FED.. Last three hours of London through the first hour of New York on non-essential news days. On the EURUSD.
No new trades opened after the first hour of New York. Whether to let the ones that have not closed by the end of the allotted trading time and play out or close them and take a loss is the question for now.
I'll run some back testing in the tester to see how this plays out. But I won't be able to identify in the tester if it it was big news day or not. I wish I had some history of events as well as tick data to see how it correlates.
It doesn't work to close at the end of the day.
It has to be when the trend changes on the day according to T3.

Keeping super conservative settings.
Only London from open London to open NY.
And only in the direction of 3 T3 on the day chart.
Other setting bring in much bigger gains but they also tend to crash big.
There a few losses here and there since I close anything that is open when T3 changes color but it is livable.
Great algorithm..
Very simple yet effective settings.
No big data releases this week. Should be fairly flat activity in the market. Which should be good.

Set up live. Last three days of small but steady profit. The strategy is not to trade at all on high impact data and news days since this is a Martingale which can crash and burn. Last three days had no data or news at all really. Today is US unemployment and the markets are already extremely volatile. Huge candles everyday. The temptation is there to set up and let the robot trade. But I'm not going to do it. Very hard to resist the temptation. But I can't afford to get caught in a high risk Martingale backfire. Tomorrow is no news day. I will set up again tomorrow. Even if the robot did really well it still wouldn't change the underlying reality of the increased risk of trading during news and data. If I want to reduce the risk and not be allured by the temptation of a "big win" I need to remember the downside which is very very real. With Martingale it can be "game over."

Not trading interim days, when 2 T3 is yellow.

Switching to 2 T3 for trend. Presently testing settings for short only.. EURUSD Trade every day. News no news... data no data...
There are a few losses with this setting since I close everything that is still open when 2 T3 changes... But that is fine. They are small losses and it is healthy actually. Martingale can explode an account but these small losses take the pressure off from building up. Will keep back testing. So far so good. Just a few small losses closed at trend change.

This setting works nicely for either long trades or short trades with 2 T3.. EURUSD AAAFX platform time.
No interim trades. Every single one tested for combined long and short was a loss.